The Calvados firefighters carried out more than 250 interventions Wednesday evening following the storms of the last hours, announced the prefecture. “ Due to the strong thunderstorms, the @ SDIS14 firefighters carried out more than 250 interventions which required the engagement of 130 firefighters and 110 emergency vehicles. Relief operations will continue overnight, ”the institution said in a tweet without giving details of the nature of the interventions. In addition, the movement of trains to Normandy was disrupted for several hours Wednesday evening following the fall of a tree on electric cables in the Houdan sector (Yvelines), announced the SNCF.
Calvados has been placed on orange alert due to thunderstorms by our partner La Chaîne Météo *. “The stormy disturbance is split into two parts with a line of thunderstorms that stretches from Normandy to the north of Lorraine and thunderstorms that go up from the Pyrenees to Limousin. These thunderstorms are also very rainy with 41.6 mm of rain collected in Deauville between 5 and 8 pm, ie as much as it fell between June 10 and August 11, ” it was indicated.
* The Weather Channel is a company of the Figaro group.
